TRANSFORMATION

• (noun) the act of changing in form or shape or appearance

  "a photograph is a translation of a scene onto a two-dimensional surface"

  synonyms : translation

• (noun) (genetics) modification of a cell or bacterium by the uptake and incorporation of exogenous DNA

• (noun) a rule describing the conversion of one syntactic structure into another related syntactic structure

• (noun) a qualitative change

  synonyms : shift , transmutation

• (noun) (mathematics) a function that changes the position or direction of the axes of a coordinate system

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